The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it